Furniture brace



Patented Nov. ill, i924.

UNHTED STAT-ES CARL M. DEADWYLER, OF WACO, TEXAS.

FURNITURE BRACE.

Application filed May 9, 1922. Serial No. 559,653.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL M. DEADWYLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Waco, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Furniture Braces, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to bed braces and more particularly to the type in which two tightening heads or yokes over which the brace wires extend are adjustably connected together for placing the brace wires.

under tension, an object of this invention being to provide a construction in which each tightening yoke or head is so formed that it may engage either one of two wires and it may also serve to prevent the wires disconnecting from the head when the wires are disconnected from the bedstead. Another object of the invention is to provide an improved anchoring device for the brace wires adapted to be secured to a metal bedstead.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described: the novel features being pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary plan view of a wooden bedstead equipped with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a detail view of one end of the tightening yokes or heads showing the manner in which one wire engages therewith;

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the manner in which two wires engage with the head;

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the head;

Fig. 5 is a detail view of one part of the anchoring device;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view showing the anchoring device attached to a metal bed Fig. 7 is a detail view of another part of the anchoring device;

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of still an-- other part of the anchoring device; and

Fig. 9 shows the anchoring device in side elevation.

Referrin more particularly to the drawings, 1 in icates a wooden bedstead provided with eyes 2 for connection with the brace wires which, in this instance, are three in number indicated at 3, 4 and 5,

each having at opposite ends, coiled eyes 6 detachably fitted over the eyes 2.

The tightening device embodies a pair of heads 7 adjustably connected together, preferably by a turn buckle 8which engages with screw threaded stems 9 on the tightening heads or yokes 7. One of the features of this invention is the formation of the tightening heads or yokes so that either one wire mayconnect therewith as the wire 5 or two wires may connect therewith as the wires 3 and i, the connection being such that when" the wires 3, 4 and 5 are disconnected from the eyes 2 for the purpose of taking the bed apart for cleaning or repairing the bed, the wires will not become detached from the tightening heads or yokes, but will maintain their connection therewith so that the brace as a whole may be readily refit ted to the bed. This is particularly desirable in hotels or other places where there is a large number of beds taken apart at one time. The wires are generally cut to lengths corresponding to the positions they occupy on a certain bed and unless these positions on this bed are maintained, the brace wireshave to be refitted to the bed. This invention overcomes this by holding the wires in their original relation on the tightening heads. This result is secured by providing the head 7 with diverging grooves 10 on opposite sides of the head, these grooves being connected at their inner or converging ends by a transverse opening 11, this opening being closed except at its ends and being also of greaterwidth than the. width of a groove 10, so that two wires may pass each other through the opening, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. This opening, while large enough to have two wires passed therethrough, is not large enough to permit the passage therethrough of the coiled eyes 6, so that these coiled eyes, which are formed during the fitting of the brace wires to the bed and after the uncoiled ends have passed through the opening 11, act to hold the brace wires to the tightening head or yoke 7 When a brass bed is employed, two brace wires only are employed and are connected to the corner posts 1 and to this end on each post a-strap 12 is provided which is shaped to conform to the post and has its two ends 13 extending in parallel relation and provided with alined openings. These two ends are held together by a clamp com- -prising, in this instance, a member 14 with a seat 15 thereon, this seat having a side flange 16 on one side to provide a shoulder for one edge of the band. A member or plate 17 fits on this seat 15 and is held.

' pro ections 19 acting to kink or bend the ends of the strap 13 and produce a binding action thereon. The clamping member may be provided with a yoke or eye 21 with which the coiled eye 6 of a brace wire may engage. I

From the foregoing it will be seen that there has been provided a tightening head or yoke for a bed brace adapted to have either one orltwo wires con ected therewith.

The head is so formed that it gives wide am-see bearing on the brace wires and, at the same 2 time, the brace Wires connect with the head so that when the brace as a Whole is re moved from the bed, the brace wirw Will not become accidentally disconnected from the head or yoke. 3

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A. tightening yoke for fu'rniture'com prising a head formed with a transverse opening having walls completely about the same and diverging grooves on opposite sides of the head, said grooves throughout the greaterportions of their lengths being lesser in Width than the Widthof the opening and having their ends adjacent the opening flaring and merging into one wall of-the opening so that two Wires, each having a diameter of substantially the diameter of the main portions of the grooves may be held against lateral movement in the grooves 45 and may lie side by side in the opening.

' CARL M. DEADWYLER. 

